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Evenglow Play Through | The Game Haus

The Brothers Murph Jul 23, 2026
Transcript 32:07

But I am going to go 171 17. Such an underrated year. 1717 probably smelled so bad.

It smelled

smelled horrible.

Everyone's like, I want to go back to the past. No, you don't. No, it probably smelled so bad.

What's up everybody? I'm Mike. We are the brothers Murphy. Time to return to the game house for some even glow.

Even glow. It's

cuz all about mirrors.

Yes, it is. It is a mirroring tile laying game from the OP who are sponsoring this play through.

Big shouts out to the OP for that. You can check out even glow and pick it up for yourselves right now. Uh do follow links in the description of this video to pick you up some of that and tell the OP that we sent you. We'd appreciate that very much. As you alluded to, Nick, this is a tile laying game where you're going to have two gardens and you are going to be building into the mirrored spaces uh which are all numbered. On every turn, you're going to get two tiles. One has to go in number blah blah blah of one side and the same number of the other side. And you're trying to build different groups of uh flowers and herbs and mushrooms and things in kind of set collectiony ways. So, what we're going to do is we're going to show you an overview of how this game is going to work. And then we're going to hop right into our two-player play.

In Even Glow, players will be placing sets of tiles into mirrored spaces of two gardens as they hope to build groups of vines and leaves and sets of various flowers and herbs. Make some use of potions to build the most appealing dual gardens as possible. On a turn, the active player will play a plant card from their hand. They can rotate the card freely, and once placed, they will gain the two tile types facing them, and all other players will gain the two tile types on the opposite side of the card. Now, you will place your two tiles. To do this, choose one tile to place in one garden, rotating the tile freely. Once you commit to one space in one garden, the other tile you have must go into the matching space of the other garden. So, if I place in space 8 here, I'd have to go to the same space there. Players hope to create groups of tiles, each of which can score at the end of the game. Vines and leaves want to be connected in one big group. For your largest group in each garden, you will get one point per vine tile and two points per leaf you connected to that vine group.

Handbane flowers want to be in groups of exactly two and are worth two bonus points if they are not touching the edge of the garden. Lion's mane, mandrekes, and elderberry are worth three, four, or five points if they are connected in a group of three, four, or five, respectively. These three tile types can award you potions for making a specific group shape, while elderberries are always going to award a potion, gaining you one point per tile touching the edge of your garden. Potions may be used to swap tiles around, replace tiles with new ones, and give greater flexibility when drafting tiles. The game will continue until all plant cards are played, at which point players tally their scores for both of their gardens, and the player with the most points wins. If I don't do this, Nick, I will scream. So, evil glow. Yes, we're making V. Okay, now I'm done.

I'm done. I just had to. It's been in my head all weekend. Okay. Oh, man. First CD I ever put in my Disc Man Pearl Jam, dude. Yeah, I listen to that song a lot. And it was back in the old days where the Disc Man you had to be like

like this.

Don't even don't even breathe on it.

If you sneeze, it explodes.

Yeah.

Boom, man.

All right. Oh, man. Pearl Jam. Dad lent it to us and I was like, "Yeah, dude. Sick." So, anyway, we're playing Evo.

Uh,

that's that's exactly it. That's exactly. Uh we're here to make mirrored uh gardens as you saw in the uh overview and um I'm the first player.

Uh so this will be switching kind of rotating around in our case.

Um and I think

yeah this scoring we talked about in the overview. So it's like yeah trying to constantly keep that in mind trying to make groups and stuff. I'll have to mirror everything.

Space starts getting tight. Uh so I'm going to go like this. So, I'm going to gather a vine and an elderberry.

And you have to take what you get.

Take what you get. Put them anywhere. Again, just remember that you hit the match on the other side.

Yeah. So, since I started with those, I figure I should just build off of that. So, I think I'm going to go into space 19 here. And then that means on 19 here. Well, actually, I'm going to go 20 and 20 because I want these on the perimeter. So, I'm going to go like that.

True.

So, that is mirrored. I think I'm going to go 21 here and then 21 here.

Start in the corners. Give you some space.

Yeah, I dig it.

All righty.

All right. That's for you. And this is for me.

Indeed. And I'm choosing I mean technically I'm the active player.

Yes, sir.

Uh [sighs] going to eat a man. Drake. Oh, yeah. All right. Uh, okay. All right. So, I'll get a lion's mane and a leaf. I put these on either side. You don't have to follow it. Like the vine doesn't have to be on the right side. So, yeah, you can put them in any garden. You just have to then put the other piece in the matching number. Um, okay. So, I think I'm gonna go 16. I'm going to go four and four up here. It's going to start getting a little tight, but I want these leaves to connect to that. Yeah, I'm going to do this. Try to have a lot of openings for vines.

Uh, RP vine. Um,

Tik Tok will never replace you.

Yeah, we didn't know how good we had it back then, dude. Life was so simple.

It was so great. 7 seconds or less.

Just good times.

Yo, we got a COD, man. Oh god, what am I doing? I was like, that's a discard. And I was thinking like that's a weird place to put a discard like that. And I'm like because it's not.

Oh yeahay.

What a weird place in my hand. That's weird. The discards in my hand.

Strange. I'm going to go like this. I'm going to keep it going, man. Vines and elder belly is all day.

Okay,

we'll die.

I'm going to go here to 24

and do that. I'm going to keep She'll be coming around the vine house when she comes. [singing] That's also Pearl Jam.

That is also Pearl Jam. Okay, I'm going to go

cost tickets to see Pearl Jam.

Shouts out.

Well, I can't hardly wait reference and not the one that anyone else is going to quote.

That's the one I quote.

Okay, I'm going to put this one here, which means I have to put this one in 17. I don't really love the placement of this one, but I created Oh, no. I was thinking about the lion's mate. Okay, well, I'm not going to put that one there then.

Oh, no. Darn. Because they have to be in a line. Oh, I was looking at the wrong thing.

Yeah, Mandre wants to be in a stream.

Darn. They do. And Oh, I So, now

keep in mind, you might be able to get a potion that swaps up around later. Probably fixed it.

Shoot, Nicholas. Oh my gosh.

You're going to go here. Got to throw out an idea.

Yeah.

Is that eventually you get something here and you can swap it and get it into the line. You playing for the future.

Yeah.

You know,

I don't I'm

You do you though. Just an idea. [snorts] Oh man. Cuz yeah, this is going to mess me up. I'm gonna go here then. Ear then. Okay. Oh man. Yeah. Sorry that that's I had a whole plan and it it got completely screwed up because I was looking at the wrong flower.

Happens, man.

Mandre lion's mane. Okay. So, so okay, I am going to do I No, they must be in different. All right, I'm going to go here.

Okay, we got lines. We're going by elderberries all day. Let's go. Yeah, it it's probably not the best. I just gave you that, but I am going to go 17. 17.

Such an underrated year. 1717 probably smelled so bad.

It smelled

smelled horrible.

Everyone's like, I want to go back to the past. No, you don't. No,

it probably smelled so bad. We don't want to go there. All right. Back to me. Hey.

All right. I'm going to go like this. So, I'm going to get a lion's mane baiten flower. And you're going to get a leap in a mandre like it.

It yield in such a dumb way. Build so dumb. Um I'm going to go here. Okay. And then here that. So eight. I'm going to go 11s. So I'm going to go here. Try to get my vine to go like that or something. Yeah. See, you got it going. I know. I'm guess how to get a swap. So, which one's the swap one? Is that that one? Okay. Yeah.

Okay. So, I'm close to that one then.

Yeah. The essence of undue.

Dislike this right here. Dislike this right here.

Yeah. I don't love four. No, I can't do that. Um, okay. I'm going to go here. So, I'm going to get an elderberry and a uh henbank. You want say herdbane? Shouts out to the codex. Hen bane flower. Yeah, her. Yeah, truth. Uh, okay. So, I'm going to get a leaf and a mandrake.

Oh, so that's interesting. So, if I go there in either one,

I'm gonna go 19 here and I'm gonna go here and hope to connect some flowers.

I'm going to go 12 and 12.

I actually can just

here and here. So, this henbane here is good. You want So that's a two. You want them not near the perimeter

ideally. Yeah, that's a that's max right there. Four points. Easy peasy.

Yeah.

Lemon. In fact, squeezy.

In fact, squeeze those lemons into my eyes. Squeeze a lemon to my eyes.

I love it.

Um, remember the game will end when the cards run out or when one of the depot runs out, which won't happen in a two-player game.

Not likely. All right, so I'm gonna do that. So, Mandrake and a vine. I'm gonna go Mandre here in 18. This is such a bummer. Why? I'll explain in a moment.

Told you that.

So, what I want to do is I want to put this 22 here to create this.

The problem is is then I would have to put this here, which blows up my two.

Hey man, you get a tincture of transmutation. Swap that.

But I need to move it.

I need to get more than that doing it.

That's where it gets tricky, man. The mirror, the mirrorization. I'm going to do this. I think I'll be okay. I need to get some swoopy swaps. Okay, so one thing I did make a group of three lions mains.

I'm going to lock those ones off. They are harvested immediately.

All right. So now I can swap the positions of any two unlocked tiles. So I definitely tell you right now. Yeah. What are you thinking? I need to put this one here is what I want. I don't have anything there yet. So I'm definitely going to hold on to this. So basically I need to put something here that I actually want here.

Does that make sense?

Well, yeah, but keep in mind when you swap, you can swap any numbers.

So they don't have to be.

So I still need something here though cuz I need something to swap. That's a very good point.

You can swap like that henbane and and or whatever it is. You know what I mean? Like you can you can make it

We're getting there. We're getting there, y'all. Okay. Make it happen.

Okay. So, speaking of happen in um I'll do this. I'll go elderberry. The worst

lion's mane. Who even Who even wants this?

15 and 15.

I'll go 17 here to go 17 here.

I'm going to go 20 and 20. Kind of go like 20. I could. Who is she? Hold on. Yeah, I'm gonna No, that's dumb.

Okay.

Going back here, I think. Oh, man. Breaking my brain. The mirrors.

You know, favorite part of the fun house is always the mirror room.

It is fun. You got to go slow though. If you go if you go at a brisk pace, you are going to break your nose. Guaranteed.

I've seen so many videos of kids just getting wrecked and it's just it's nostalgic because that's what happened to us. Yeah.

So, the state fair is going on. So, it's timely.

It is a state fair time.

I'm going to go 16 here to make a straight line of mandrekes, which means I have to go 16 here with this vine.

Uh, okay. So, I made a straight line of mandrekes. So, not only will that be worth four points, but I can lock it off and make a chow elixir or chaos elixir if you speak normally, which I cannot not say chows. Now, that's going back to a long time ago during a playthrough. And it's

What was it for? It was for

uh Chaos Order.

Shiao's Yes, it was

Shiao's order. Anyway, point is

our brains are broken. Uh, so, okay, as a reminder, this one is at a um as a turn plant a tile from the active player side and from the everyone else side on the draft board. So, if this was this turn, I can take like this and this, for example, instead of just the two that are on my side. And you can do that on your or an opponent's turn.

Up to you when you use it. Um, and you maintain the points even if you use the potions. So, no reason not to.

Yeah, not really.

Where are you thinking about going?

I don't know. I don't like I don't like these leaves. I have like no vines. So, my leaves are just like

not a vine guy. I've been I've been all mine all day. So,

so I think I'm going to go here. And this is going to part this one here. I My guess is it won't do anything. Yeah. I'm like, "Oh, man.

Sure. No bad. No bad."

Whoa, brother. Oh, no. That's not

a man that brother.

I'll do this one. So, let me get a vine. Speaking of and elderberry.

This is so Yeah, that works.

Silly. Oh, is this dumb?

Nah.

Oh, this is silly.

Why?

Cuz I'm going to I want to do this cuz I want another thing. This vine. Well, this vine can go here. This is fine.

All right. I'm going to go get another essence of undo. So my min maximum. All right, I'm gonna go up here to nine, which means this will go to nine. So this will complete this group. It is touching the perimeter, so only worth two points. But I did create a group of five elderberries. Now, this one does not have to be in any specific shape. I will lock that off and harvest the tincture of transmutation, which allows me to swap any one tile with a tile from the sup.

Um, and you know what? I'm I'm gonna fire this one off right now straight away

because I don't like that I'm not getting the bonus here. And I did want to connect up to that leaf. So, I'm going to swap this out for a vine. Has to go in the same numbered spot.

Yep.

Um, but I can do this and connect that up

maybe. Uh, oh, can I do it like a different way? I'll do it like this actually. Throw a leaf down there.

So, I could potentially go down here or throw a leaf down there.

Okay, I feel good about that.

That potion is now used up. still maintains its value. Uh, and that was I'm I'm playing card now. So,

yeah, I have these two swap ones, but I can't use them right now. Or I can, but I I don't have much much use right now. I kind of want to get this more filled in. Then I'll probably like go. Can you use as many on your turn as you want?

I think so.

Yeah.

Yeah. Uh, okay. I'm going to go like this and go henbane flower and lion's mane. I'm going to throw my lion's mane down here. It will put this back up here. But you know what, man? I'm more interested in creating this potion. Since I made the lion's mane in a triangle, I get to lock that off and get an essence of undue unry.

Good. Nice try, you

sleep rain. I think I'm going to go here and I'm going to put this here. So, I'm actually not going to do that swap because I create a group of four here. So, it's going to lock up.

That unfortunately has to be exactly four. Exactly. You have a group of four.

Oh, I Okay, I'll swap something then. Um, I just want to let you know.

No, you're right. You're right. I was thinking I was like, "Oh, this is great." Um, so what do I want? I need to get rid of this one. So, there's not really like a place that this is like Oh, yeah. This is great to put here. Um, I also need to get this.

Yeah, if you threw it up here, you could in theory make another straight line of mandrekes. I don't know. But, uh, that's a possible.

I don't, but then this is like whatever's in here is just going to be locked in here.

True.

Which is kind of the only bummer. You know what I'm going to do then? I'm just going to go bummer.

That's fair.

And I think I'm still going to try and move this one out of here. Maybe swap to like here or something like that. But then at least it gets out of there. So, I will now get this one. So again, this is the one where you can plant a tower from the active side and then the other side as well.

Yep. All right. So your two have been added, right?

Yeah.

Yep.

All right. I'll flip that around. Get a new card over here. Okay. Now, what do I want to do? And this we go here. We're gonna go vine and elderberry. I'm g go 13 and 13. Bam. Okay. I think I'm going to go here and slide that in. 15. And then this won't hurt anything by going here. Right.

Cuz I

It's going to be hard to make another group of mandrekes in here now. We're running out of space.

A long line is tough. All right.

All righty. Um, [singing] I think I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this, but I'm going to use my chow's elixir, my chaos elixir, so that I can take one from this side, one from that side. So, I'm going to take the vine and the leaf um instead of the vine and elderberry. So, the although h Yeah, I can swap it later. Okay, sticking with it. Sticking with it. So sticky wicket. So I'm going go there, which is what? Space 13. So this has to go into 13 on this side. I'll kind of point that outward because I don't have any vines. So I can get some vines going on this side. That'd be sweet.

Or I could just swap it with something later.

Yeah. All right. Okay. Beauty. Okay. [sighs] Oh man, this is getting tough. It gets cramped, man. It gets cramped.

Yeah, it is bru. Gosh, man. Yeah. I'm gonna go here and I'm going to go elderberry and mandrake. These mandrekes are just not

Don't want that.

Take that. No, I don't want take that clip. [sighs and gasps] So, let's go 50s. This gives me a group of five elderberries here. Again, as Mike said, they don't need to be in any kind of shape. And that's going to give me a tick of transformation. Excuse me.

Transmutation. [singing] Transmutation. Transmutation. Transmutation.

Sorry.

All right. I want lions mane there. Headbane there.

That's all right. That's That's I can work.

That's acceptable.

Actually, I don't hate that, man. I actually don't hide it.

Don't hide it. Okay. So, I could just replace one long tile with another tower from the spot. Okay, this good.

Yeah. Oh, this is locked, but yes.

All righty. We're getting close to getting close here.

We're not getting farther.

I'm go like that. So, I'm going to get a leaf. Linear time works, Mike.

And um and a lion's mane. I'm going to go to spawn 11. Lucky number. Shouts out. Best number.

That is Mike's lucky number. Um I'm going to go here now. Unfortunately, as it stands now, this won't be worth anything because it's not my biggest find. But if I can get it looped around, it's possible I can connect it up.

But it gets me closer to getting a second group of this, which is the is the goal here. [snorts] Oh, building so badly. Here's the thing. I like these kinds of games. I'm so bad at them.

One does not need to be good at something to enjoy something.

That's true. That's what I'm saying. I I highly enjoy them, but I am not good at them. Damn.

Oh, okay. Um, I just desperately need vines.

Vines all day.

Yes. I just Yeah, I'm just like, man, none of these are good. Well, I could do that three. No, maybe. Sure. I'll just here. Elderberry and leaves. So, my elderberry is going to go here. And my leaves will have to go there. Oh my gosh,

man. So, a group of mushrooms. So, I'll get that. I just I'm so scared.

You should be.

You should be. You um Man, I probably need to just do stuff.

I'm going to use a potion if you if you're still thinking for a second.

Yeah, you go ahead.

I'm use a potion and I'm going to swap. Oh, that breaks up both things though. Dang it. Maybe not. I want to swap this in and break up this thing, but I'm not even looking at the right area. Oh, no. Well, it doesn't matter. I don't need them to be mirrored. Um Oh, yes. So, I don't need to be mirrored. What am I doing? Don't mind me. Uh, so I'm going to swap this with this. So, this is going to drop in there. Can maybe make a little something something out of that,

right? And then this I think I'm gonna go like that and then still hope to connect around.

Yeah, that's crazy.

Feeling good about it, man. I'm feeling good about my build.

Yeah, I think I'm also going to swap um Oh, no. I can't. Oh, yeah. Well, it's make a bunch of difference. So, I think I'm going swap this one for this one. It's like this has a little thing, but like my vines are so bad

that it won't really matter because this was the same amount as this one anyway, so it wasn't going to make a difference.

Sure.

This vine's doing nothing, but it does

break up this. So now I have some stuff. All right, card, man.

All right. Uh, I'm going to go back to my old ways of getting vines and elderberries.

[singing]

Um, I'm gonna use my um Shiao's elixir and I'm going to get this uh uh henbane and then this vine. I'm going do need that and that. So, I'm going to go here and there. Okay. All right. Couple turns left, man. Yeah. Can we get stuff done? We'll see. We We will indeed see. Uh I'll do No,

this is not my idea.

Dude, my garden's coming together so nice.

Mine is I love it. Mine exists. I guess I'll do this. So I'll do elderberry and then uh lives to get henbane and mandrake lives

seven is good here mandrake doesn't hurt there I can live with that guess we'll just go park this here and I'm just going to throw out a hole as I go this goes here 23 I'll put this here doesn't make a difference okay there you go uh okay I placed mine all right last two turns here here. And I got this one potion. You still keep your points if you use your potion, so you might as well.

Yeah, there's no reason not to really. Um, all right. I'm going to go here and I'm going to get uh vine and a lion's mane.

I hate this two. I got to visualize. Okay. So, we four and four. Okay, I'll do this. Four and four, baby. All right, drop that in. I don't think there's anything I should swap around that'll help make my life more valuable. Oh, I love it. So happy with that.

Yeah, yours is looking pretty good.

Chuff with that.

All right. Um, yeah, I might as well do this. So, I'll do this. It'll be elderberry and henbane. Henbane's going to go right here in the nine. And then this [clears throat] is going to go here. And then so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use my tinka up. Boom. And I am going to swap this. Oh, you know I'll swap out is this mandrake for an elderberry, which will create another group of five here. So that'll lock down. Boop. And I'll get another potion transition. So now I'm just like, is there something else I should switch out that would be useful? I don't know, man.

I don't know. I'm not entirely sure. [snorts] No, because it won't make a difference. I'm trying. I'm not entirely sure. One, two. I don't think there's something that's really going to make much of a difference in terms of my score. So I think I'm just not going to Okay, fair enough.

Okay, so we are at the end of the game, folks. Uh just like that. So we are going to go kind of down through the types of tiles uh scoring them. So again, vines and leaves are uh connected to each other and for each garden we score. So starting here, I have a one vine size vine situations. That's one point.

That's one point, baby.

Uh over here I have uh vines. These are all connected up. So it's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. And then I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven flowers. That's going to be 24 and one is 25 for my vines and leaves.

Okay, get ready. Got one

and that's two. Two. Three. And then I go. Okay, this one's better. So I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So 3 + 8 is 11.

That was actually better than I thought it was to be completely honest.

Not bad.

To be completely honest. All right, next is going to be the henbane flowers. Again, they're two points per group of exactly two. If they are completely uh outside of the perimeter, they're bonus two. So, this is going to be two plus two is four. This one is touching the perimeter, so that's just two is six. And this is another four for 10 total. So, these three here are all not on the border. So, they're each worth four. So, 4, 8, 12. This one is on the border, but it's still worth its two. So, be 14 total.

Nice. Okay. Lion's Main Groups of three. Uh, I have two. So, that's going to be six points.

Uh, I also have two.

Okay. Groups of mandrekes. I have one for four points.

One for four points.

Groups of elderberries. I got one for five.

I have two, but you're only counting ones on the on the perimeter. So, this one

Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. So, yeah, my bad. I keep doing that. Uh, similar to you. This isn't five points. I have one, two, three, four points uh for that because only four are on the perimeter.

Yeah. And this one is 1, two, three, four on the perimeter and then five six over here. And this one doesn't count cuz it's not part of the group. Nice. Okay, now let's get points for potions. And then every complete set of three is a bonus three points. So I've got 3 6 10 15 and three is 18.

This is 10 16 20 and then a set of three is 23.

Wow. I need to really go.

I don't know if that's going to overcome the vine score though.

That's going to be this really close. I don't know cuz I outscored Mike in basically either tied or I scored Mike in everything else other than the vines. But Mike scored 14 more points in the vines. I don't know if I got that many more points otherwise.

I have 64. I think

you do.

Oh, 64 to 67. Okay. 64. I have 67.

That's closer than I thought it was going to be.

Thing is a bummer is the tiebreaker is potions made, which you would have broken one. But yeah, Nick literally scored you scored four more points in the henbane flowers.

Yep.

Uh we tied on lions man and mandrake. You got two more points from your elderberries and you got five more points from your from your potions

potions. Yeah.

And so the only and and you managed to get 11 on the vines and leaves. So I mean 25 for me was was really obviously my main driver of points but you managed to negate a good amount of that and literally three point difference. Very well done.

Yeah, I thought it was going to be a blowout. It was it was not quite that bad.

Yeah, you got to trust yourself in your puzzling ways.

So that was a close game.

Yeah, that mirrored board where you're like, I this needs to go here. Man, this thing is not good right there though. So you're trying to figure out use some potions to me a little bit.

As you get deeper in, you start getting in your own way where you're like, oh, if I put this here, then it breaks that group up. So I need to like try to like put those little ones spot buffers of like this doesn't hurt me at all. I'm going to put it there to try to build out these things. A very close game ultimately that is even glow everyone. Big shout out to the OP for sponsoring this playthrough. Again, you can pick this up for yourself by following the link in the description of this video. Tell the op that the brothers Murf sent you. Let us know what you think about this one in the comments below and we'll see you all next time at the game house.

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